March 26, 2014

The Index Finger

By Tammy Derouin

I walked in on a humorous conversation this past week.  I was asked if I was easily offended.  The guys wanted to share the laughter but they were considerate of my feelings.  I was given fair warning.  Clip art is a wonderful tool, no words, point made. The image was funny and I walked away laughing.  I pondered the question; am I easily offended? 

What is offensive?  Words and gestures if used in a derogatory way can cause hostility.  What is offensive to one individual may seem harmless to others.  In addition to all the control we are giving the government, we are collectively allowing the government to determine what words and gestures are inappropriate. 

   

Isn’t it strange how a hand gesture, which was never considered offensive or dangerous, is now responsible for several children being expelled from school?  The index finger and thumb is now considered a level 2 look-a-like firearm.  Wow!  Have you registered your hands with the government?  I wonder if they will try to confiscate them.

Isn’t it strange how a finger gesture, which has always been considered offensive, is shrugged off?  Does anybody get suspended for launching the middle finger?  It looks like a rocket!  It’s on the launch pad!  It could go off any time!  It’s so dangerous!  It’s so, so…  Feel free to insert the appropriate word.  

If the finger gun is a level 2 look-a-like firearm, wouldn’t logic dictate that a finger rocket is more powerful and could do more harm?  Nope.  Much like Obama decides which laws he wants to make, uphold and enforce, the progressives pick and choose which gestures and words will further their agenda.  Have you heard that the word “bossy” is now in the crosshairs?  When did we become so thin-skinned?  Oh right, back in 2008.

In the reality of today’s power grab, the finger gun is a distraction.  Have Americans become so soft, so sensitive that we are terrified of our own appendages?   We are allowing our children to be suspended because they make the shape of a legal weapon.  Yes, a legal weapon!  Wow!  How is a finger, which is made of flesh and blood, more dangerous than the truly offensive behavior of our elected servants?  

On the scale of dangerous activities, let’s consider what is truly serious.  We have accepted an administration that promised transparency but has only delivered deceit and dishonesty.  We’ve accepted and applauded the fact that our current administration enjoys working outside of the Constitution.  The executive tells us he’s going to go around Congress, follows through and we applaud him!  Our rights are being trampled.  Individuals have become government targets simply because they don’t agree with the administration.  Our children are slowly being turned into useful government idiots by way of Common Core.  The executive simply picks up a pen or phone and his will is done.  Endless mandates and executive orders have transformed America.  We no longer have a president, we have a dictator.

Americans are being led to slaughter.  Free stuff and endless promises to change the world more to their liking are the bait.  Americans either can’t see the truth through the gimmicks or they don’t care.  We are ignoring the real problem.  A finger gun isn’t a problem when the president and his attorney general cannot clearly answer if they would ever target American citizens with Drones on American soil.  Why was that such a difficult question to answer?  Their inability to clearly answer the question is what made the answer so clear.  Did this bother anybody else?

Our president has turned the greatest and once strongest nation in the world into a laughing stock.  We are no longer respected.  World leaders, our enemies, mock us.  Obama’s mission is to destroy the United States.  His mission is almost accomplished.  Every time we allow this administration to infringe on our rights or to overstep its authority, we give them our blessing to violate us even more. 

Perhaps the most offensive gesture of them all is the index finger.  It has been used countless times by the president to shift blame away from him and his administration.  More damage has been caused by the president’s finger pointing than any amount of people making a finger gun.  I wonder if the president knows that when he points his finger, there are three fingers pointing back at him.

The president offends me.  He has transformed my home into a land I no longer recognize.  He has tarnished the office of President of the United States, the White House and all symbols of freedom.  He has transformed the land of the free into the land of oppression.

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

Thomas Jefferson